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agile started with the logical fallacy of "successful developers do this, so if we force everyone to do that, they will be successful." It then became a way for lazy managers and lazy developers to pretend they knew what they were doing. Interestingly, the original Agile Manifesto is quite good; but it is talking about highly competent, self-driven developers in competent organizations.

This was driven home to me a few years ago when I worked at a company with two distinct teams working right next to each other, one which did agile by the numbers and ours, which had stand ups and that's about it. I was on the latter and our stuff was always done on time with very few bugs. The other team was constantly late and there stuff very buggy. Since their cubicles were next to mine, I noted that they spent a huge amount of time on the bureaucracy of Agile. It also became obvious how artificial and staid Agile was--ironic given that it's supposed to be, well, agile. (A friend of mine worked for an agile company; it finally got so silly, the CEO called an end to it. The positive change in productivity and morale was stunning.)

How quickly from the time you installed Windows could to get it to break or give errors( from runtime to registry ) ?, excluding really dumb stuff like deleting system32 and of course Vista, cause that was instant
Include which windows you where using.

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

I'm sure this will come as a surprise to you, but I don't generally try to break Windows deliberately.

There are two reasons for this:
1) It takes too long to clean up and reinstall when you break it properly, and I have better things to do with my time.
2) Windows (pre Win7) was far, far too capable of breaking itself without any input from me.

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

*nix FTW.
A mate of mine was one of the tech support bods at Edinbugh Uni, there was a server there that had been running over 10 years straight (1992 -2002, when my mate left). No one knew what it was and they were too scared to switch it off. Total sum maintenance - one scary day when they took the side off to vacuum out the accumulated dust in case it became a fire hazard.

Alberto Brandolini:

The amount of energy necessary to refute bullsh*t is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

I am not sure about Windows, but I once bought a glass top coffee table (not exactly like this[^], but close).
I brought it home, set it up and wanted to vacuum around the table. The vacuum cleaner hit one of the table legs and the glass plate closest to the floor shattered

Soren Madsen

"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty